Blogs

Many tools exist to help us to translate and interpret correctly. Many of these are items which we have available to us at home such as dictionaries, online translators, magazines and blogs. The latter of these is the focus of our project.
Translation blogs are useful as they offer both useful translation advice and resolve issues related to translation, such as how to run a successful translation business and how to use the technology integral to a translator’s work. These blogs can be divided into four types: blogs discussing advice, professional experience and daily issues in a translator’s life, blogs discussing specialized translation, blogs discussing resources, translation software job offers, useful tips and tricks and finally unique blogs, with a bit of everything.

1. Blogs dealing with daily problems in a translator’s life and that offer advice:

· www.elartedetraducir.wordpress.com : This blog contains an interesting survey, questioning whether one day online translators will be a substitute for flesh and blood.
· www.localiza-me.blogspot.com
· www.alvaromira.wordpress.com : This blog contains the thoughts of the young translator, Álvaro Mira.
· www.bootheando.com : Here you can find useful guides explaining various interpretation techniques and how to reduce stress in conferences.

1. Blogs discussing specialized translation

Videogames:
· www.algomasquetraducir.com : A blog dedicated to professional translation, to the location of videogames and technology used in translation.
· www.traducistes.com : Here you can find information about the locations of video games, audiovisual translation and research.
Exhibition projects and art:
· www.barcelonakontext.com/traductores/ : A blog dealing with the translation of books and art exhibitions.
Legal translation:
· www.elgasconjurado.com : A blog created by Fernando A. Gascón Nasarre, a lawyer and legal interpreter in Saragossa . It deals with legal translation and the justice system.
Audiovisual translation:
· www.ricardsierra.com/adlibs : A blog belonging to the audiovisual translator, Ricard Sierra, who is a member of Asetrad. It contains articles about subtitling, dubbing and translation in general.

1. Blogs offering resources, translation software, job offers, tips and tricks:

· www.e-sanchez.com/blog : Useful information and tips for translators. Here you can find monolingual dictionaries and translation and style guides.
· www.meteteme.blogspot.com : This blog criticizes online translators which offer poor quality service.

· www.laurapo.blogs.uv.es : A blog dedicated to the technology and computer systems related to translation. The author also posts offers for courses in assisted translation..

· www.babel20.blogspot.com : A blog about the world of languages and new (or not so new) technology. There are discussions, games, web links and other technical resources to aid the learning and enjoying of languages.
· www.translators-resource-center.blogspot.com : Here you can find job offers, advice and free software for translators.

1. A bit of everything:

· www.detraducciones.blogspot.com : A blog created by Eugenia Arrés, which discusses the ins and outs of the translating and interpreting profession, as well as other linguistic resources, which would be of interest to both students and professionals.
· www.exonario.blogspot.com : According to this blog’s tag line, it provides ‘unusual definitions of hilarious nouns, which are hard to come across and often hard to reference’.
· www.tradublog.wordpress.com/: A collective project developed by several translation and interpretation students of different Spanish universities. The objective of the blog is to provide a different point of view about translation studies: day to day life, problems with their careers, what to do and no do in order to survive university life, etc.